With less than 48 hours to go before the US elections and more than 77.6 million votes already cast, new polls show Kamala Harris leading among early voters in the nation’s battleground states.

The Democratic candidate has an 8% lead among those who have already voted, while her opponent, Donald Trumpleads the way among those who say they are very likely to vote but have not yet done so. The New York Times/Siena College poll also showed Harris with a narrow lead in three swing states, with Trump too close to call in one and the other three.

With just hours of campaigning to go, Harris spoke Michiganwhile her Republican opponent used a rally Pennsylvania to complain about holes in the bulletproof shields around him and suggest he wouldn’t worry about reporters being shot at if there was another assassination attempt on him.

“To get me, someone would have to go through the fake news and I don’t mind that,” he said, adding that the press were “seriously corrupt people.” Trump’s communications director claimed in a statement that the comments were likely an attempt to look out for the welfare of the news media.

Here’s what else happened on Sunday:

Donald Trump election news and updates

• The Trump campaign claimed that the NYT polls and Saturday’s Selzer poll in Iowa for the Des Moines Register were intended to suppress Trump’s rise by painting a biased, bleak picture of Trump’s reelection prospects. “No president has done more for FARMERS and the great state of Iowa than Donald J. Trump,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network.

• In Pennsylvania, Trump told his supporters that he should have stayed in the White Housedespite losing the 2020 election. “We had the most secure border in the history of our country the day I left,” Trump said.

• At a rally in Macon, Georgia, Trump kept up the anti-migrant rhetoric and again suggested he would give a health policy role to Robert F Kennedy Jr.. Trump said he told Kennedy, “You work on women’s health, you work on health, you work on what we eat. You work on pesticides. You work on everything.”

• After RFK Jr proposed removing fluoride from drinking water on the first day of a new Trump administration, the former president appeared to approve of the idea. “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it seems OK to me,” Trump told NBC News. “You know, it’s possible.”

• Trump also spoke in Kinston, North Carolina, where he criticized Mitch McConnell the Republican minority leader in the Senate. “Hopefully we can get rid of Mitch McConnell soon,” Trump said. Republican voters in Kinston told the Guardian they are ready to fight a “stolen election.”

Kamala Harris election news and updates

• At her last meeting in Michigan, Harris vowed to do everything in her power to “end the war in Gaza.”as she sought to appeal to the state’s large Arab-American and Muslim-American populations. Michigan is home to about 240,000 registered Muslim voters, the majority of whom voted for Biden in 2020. But Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the state have expressed dissatisfaction with the administration’s position on Israel’s war on Gaza.

• Harris sidestepped questions about whether she voted for a controversial anti-crime measure that would make it easier for prosecutors to lock up repeat shoplifters and drug users in jail or prison after she filed her ballot in California. Proposition 36 would roll back the provisions of Proposition 47, which downgraded low-level theft and drug possession to felonies.

• At Michigan’s Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit, Harris told the congregation that God’s plan was to “heal us and bring us together as a nation,” but that they “must act” to make that plan a reality.

Elsewhere on the campaign trail

• A US government communications regulator has alleged that Harris’ appearance on Saturday Night Live violates the “equal time” rules that govern political programming. Brendan Carr, commissioner of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), said: “The purpose of the rule is to prevent exactly this type of biased and partisan behavior – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to influence one candidate. of an election.”

• Iowa can continue to challenge the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential non-citizens. a federal judge has ruled. The state has targeted illegal voting, but critics say these efforts endanger the voting rights of people who only recently became U.S. citizens.

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